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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Parcel \Par"cel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parceled}or {Parcelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parceling} or {Parcelling}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." --Shak. [1913 Webster] These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The broad woodland parceled into farms. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.] [1913 Webster] That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. [1913 Webster] {To parcel a rope} (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. --Totten. {To parcel a seam} (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Parcel \Par"cel\, n. [F. parcelle a small part, fr. (assumed) LL. particella, dim. of L. pars. See {Part}, n., and cf. {Particle}.] 1. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] "A parcel of her woe." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Two parcels of the white of an egg. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. [1913 Webster] 3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. [1913 Webster] This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. [1913 Webster] 'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] {Bill of parcels}. See under 6th {Bill}. {Parcel office}, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery. {Parcel post}, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment; as, to send a package by parcel post. See {parcel post} in the vocabulary. {Part and parcel}. See under {Part}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Parcel \Par"cel\, a. & adv. Part or half; in part; partially. --Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.] [1913 Webster] The worthy dame was parcel-blind. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] {Parcel poet}, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: parcel n 1: a wrapped container [syn: {package}, {parcel}] 2: the allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians" [syn: {parcel}, {portion}, {share}] 3: an extended area of land [syn: {tract}, {piece of land}, {piece of ground}, {parcel of land}, {parcel}] 4: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: {package}, {bundle}, {packet}, {parcel}] v 1: divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land" 2: cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope" 3: make into a wrapped container